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Another Story Online
I don’t know why I didn’t notice this before, but the first story I ever published, “Rossetti Song,” is online at the Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet web site, which also features terrific fiction from Kelly Link, Christopher Rowe, Carol Emshwiller, Ray Vukcevich…the list goes on. Also some cool nonfiction pieces. You can’t go wrong.
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Books Vs. Trees
So books are made from trees, and there are those who think that book readers need to make environmental amends for reading. Along comes Eco-Libris, a well-meaning outfit that will take your money and put it towards planting trees. Here’s my question, though. Eco-Libris helps to fund tree-planting efforts in developing nations. Do American publishers…
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Did Anyone Ever Know?
Over at Bookslut, Paul Kincaid has an interesting column about award processes (he either was or still is administrator of the Arthur C. Clarke award), and he takes the time to ask the question, “Does Anyone Even Know What Science Fiction Is Anymore?” A sample: …we have lost our sense of what science fiction is.…
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Who Knew?
So I’m glancing through a copy of Best American Mystery Stories 2005, edited by the most distinguished Joyce Carol Oates, and my thumb kind of slips as I’m riffling through the pages…and there, listed in the back matter, where anthologies of this kind list the stuff the editor liked a lot but didn’t decide to…
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Catching Up
Summer comes, and I go outside, and the bloggery suffers. Here’s a grab-bag of what’s been going on… I ran across this review of Logorrhea from a newspaper in Baton Rouge, and thought I’d excerpt the bit about my story: Alex Irvine’s “Semaphore,” is more of a conventional story with hints at the supernatural. In…
Crooked House Fictions 